Shackleford, winner of the 2011 Preakness, trained at WCTC from Sept. 25, 2009, until May 27, 2010. Sired by Forestry, and grandson
of Storm Cat, Shackleford's win in the Preakness and his pacesetting performance in the Kentucky Derby, continues the legacy
of Storm Cat's offspring. With career earnings of over one million dollars, Shackleford has had eight starts, with three firsts, and
one second.
Shackleford's biggest challenge while on the farm was gatework. "One day he just walked through the damn gate," is how Webb put it
in an
interview with a local paper. By the time
he was finished with his training at WCTC, he was a race-ready, sane, sound colt, primed for a career.
Webb, Travis, and the rest of the staff at Webb Carroll Training Center want to congratulate Mike Lauffer, W.D. Cubbedge and Dale Romans
on an exciting, down-to-the-wire win at the Preakness, and to thank them for the opportunity to train a great athlete like Shackleford.
Shackleford isn't the first Classic winner to graduate Webb Carroll Training Center. 2001 graduate, War Emblem, received his training in South Carolina's mild winter climate here at WCTC. He went on to capture the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness in 2002.
